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How to speak

• How to speak
  • How to start
  • The BIG 4
    • Cycle (say it, say it again, etc…)
    • Verbal punctuation
    • Near Miss
    • Ask Question
  • Time & Place
    • best hour 10h30 in the morning
    • Hall well lit, outside if possible
    • Full
    • Flat
  • Blackboard
    • Draw
    • Lists
    • Target
  • Overheads
    • DO NOT: read your transparences
    • DO NOT: stand well appart from your transparences
    • DO NOT: wave your pointer around, becomes a distraction
    • DO NOT: cover and uncover the slides
  • Props
    • examples, demonstrations
  • Style
  • How to Stop
    • DO NOT: Thanks the audience
    • JOKE
    • DELIVER
    • CALL FOR QUESTIONS
    • SALUTE
  • Questions 1
  • Question 2-4
  • Postlude

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How to speak

MIT. Patrick Henry Winston

How to start

• no joke
• a promise
• even before menu

The BIG 4

Cycle (say it, say it again, etc…)

• psychology, first loop bring in from long term memory necessary material
• probability, probably some individual miss what you say, say it about 3 times

Verbal punctuation

• time to get time on board
• "here I am" talking about X
• verbal boundaries between the points

Near Miss

• concept, but also something that isn't the concept but almost
• comparing examples by something that isn't the concept
• help establish its boundaries

Ask Question

• they should frequent and easy to answer
• pause for 5s between the question and ask the answer
• the pause feel very long for the speaker, but not for the audience

Time & Place

best hour 10h30 in the morning

distribute candy bars after 15h

Hall well lit, outside if possible

never dim the light, etc…

Full

harder to have enthusiastic audience to a disperse audience

Flat

not theatrical like because people expect theatre

Blackboard

usable blackboard is important

Draw

• allow you to draw, icons, pictures, etc…
• psychology, intelligence is buried in linguistic and visual system
• draw often

Lists

• make lists!

Target

• show something with your hands, point the blackboard
• a great talked pointed to zone not in relation with the talk, it was still effective

Overheads

DO NOT: read your transparences

people know how to read, and reading will just annoy them substantial fraction of the audience will be annoyed

DO NOT: stand well appart from your transparences

DO NOT: wave your pointer around, becomes a distraction

you don't need it, because of the thing you have at the end of your arm

DO NOT: cover and uncover the slides

substantial fraction of the audience will be annoyed

• you can add things, colors

Transparent are often overused.

Props

examples, demonstrations

Style

How do you decide what to bring to your own personna?

• He didn't copy anybody, but look to everybody, and adapt to my own skills
• It's ok to be eccentric
• Use of a story

How to Stop

Stopping is extremely difficult.

DO NOT: Thanks the audience

because it show you aren't sure about the value of your talk

JOKE

• make people think they had fun all time
• sometime you don't have a joke

DELIVER

• remind people of your promise

CALL FOR QUESTIONS

SALUTE

• "This conclude what I have to say"
• I wish to add only that
• Being here the past few days has been wonderfully stimulating and provocating experience for me and I look forward to have the similar experience in the future.

Questions 1

Ask yourself a question if no question. non verbal communication is important, smile and look grateful

Question 2-4

Postlude

• writing list and square
• people only learn what they almost already know, just incrementally add a new information